Comments by Prince of the Restoration - MLive.comtag:profile.mlive.com,2015:ribby2/17171612012-05-24T01:21:14ZMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceComment on Michigan budget deal: Republicans plan some tax relief, teacher retirement system changes tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/politics/index.ssf//3203.206911352012-05-24T01:21:14Z2012-05-24T01:21:14ZWhat a ridiculous idea. Private employees receive retirement benefits, so should public employees.ribby2Comment on Michigan Senate passes work sharing bill and other unemployment reformstag:www.mlive.com,2015:/jobs/index.ssf//8000032.206910722012-05-24T01:14:28Z2012-05-24T01:14:28ZThis is a positive thing, progressive economist Dean Baker has been calling for this for a long time.ribby2Comment on Amid chaos, Democrats call GOP election bill 'a naked assault on that sacred right to vote'tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/politics/index.ssf//3203.206701472012-05-22T18:48:06Z2012-05-22T18:48:06ZTHEBUS, you are dead wrong. There is an amendment that gives Congress the power to enforce voting rights in the states. It is called the 15th amendment. You might want to read it. If the voter ID law is structuredribby2Comment on From the comments: MLive readers debate merits of charter, public schoolstag:www.mlive.com,2015:/news/saginaw/index.ssf//3472.206695392012-05-22T18:06:14Z2012-05-22T18:06:14ZThe thieves are the charter operators.ribby2Comment on Michigan Republicans at odds over some teacher pension changestag:www.mlive.com,2015:/education/index.ssf//3940.206676162012-05-22T16:25:45Z2012-05-22T16:25:45ZYour information is out of date. Michigan's ranking had already fallen to 12th by 2009, and it is probably lower than that now.ribby2Comment on Readers debate: Do colleges put too little emphasis on student learning? (With poll)tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/education/index.ssf//3940.206658592012-05-22T14:49:28Z2012-05-22T14:49:28ZExcellent post!ribby2Comment on Michigan Republicans at odds over some teacher pension changestag:www.mlive.com,2015:/education/index.ssf//3940.206657402012-05-22T14:41:21Z2012-05-22T14:41:21ZI hope that someone here is paying attention. If the issue is cutting costs, it would be counterproductive to switch to 403b for teachers. According to http://www.nirsonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=61, to provide the same level of benefits costs 46% less per participant underribby2Comment on David Agema, Terri Lynn Land win Republican committee spots at conventiontag:www.mlive.com,2015:/politics/index.ssf//3203.206373842012-05-20T01:08:32Z2012-05-20T01:08:32ZIt looks like Land got the Female seat and Agema got the nut seat.ribby2Comment on Gun-toting Michiganders promote 'constitutional carry' at rallytag:www.mlive.com,2015:/news/index.ssf//2926.206373552012-05-20T01:04:33Z2012-05-20T01:04:33ZFirst, I can't find any documentation of the story that students in the Va Tech shootings went to their cars to get guns. Second, you make the argument that gun control laws did not help, therefore we should not haveribby2Comment on Michigan Senate may vote today to dump pensions for new teachers tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/news/index.ssf//2926.206076102012-05-17T15:43:59Z2012-05-17T15:43:59ZThis is not a 'cost saving' proposal, it is a pay cutting proposal. According to Prudential Retirement, "The cost to deliver the same level of retirement income to a group of employees is 46 percent lower with an old-fashioned pensionribby2Comment on Why universities are being targeted with state funding cuts and raising tuition (Susan J. Demas column)tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/politics/index.ssf//3203.206073242012-05-17T15:28:00Z2012-05-17T15:28:00ZThe answer to your question has been well known for centuries. For example, the well known phrase 'schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. There are a number of reasons why it is reasonable for government toribby2Comment on Big Ten-backed four-team college football playoff is fine; it's the selection process that matterstag:www.mlive.com,2015:/spartans/index.ssf//2508.205943742012-05-16T17:48:54Z2012-05-16T17:48:54ZThe proposal isn't fine, it's horrible. You have the FBS colleges, most of which are public, who could make a huge pile of money by running a real 16 team playoff, and instead of doing that, they are giving mostribby2Comment on Audit: Dead people and prisoners recorded as voting in Michigantag:www.mlive.com,2015:/politics/index.ssf//3203.205892162012-05-16T12:46:09Z2012-05-16T12:46:09ZWho you calling an idiot in this wonderful newly civil forum for discussion of the issues? The reason for the concern over photo ID laws is that Republicans are not pushing for an honest photo ID law, they are usingribby2Comment on Audit: Dead people and prisoners recorded as voting in Michigantag:www.mlive.com,2015:/politics/index.ssf//3203.205803372012-05-15T18:23:33Z2012-05-15T18:23:33ZThere is nothing difficult about showing ID, if you have one. The issue is that people who do not have ID's are more likely to vote Democratic, that is why the Republicans are so insistent on denying them their rightribby2Comment on If you could build a school system from scratch, what would be different? (commentary)tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/education/index.ssf//3940.205714022012-05-15T01:28:34Z2012-05-15T01:28:34ZSuppose the kids I teach this year also do better the following year, shouldn't I get a cut for that? Suppose I teach to the test and the kids do great this year but go in the tank next year.ribby2Comment on Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell's Planned Parenthood speech draws rebuke from MLive readers, old political foetag:www.mlive.com,2015:/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf//3625.205666292012-05-14T19:26:56Z2012-05-14T19:26:56ZYou want to play cowboys and indians in afghanistan? Pay for it yourself. You want a bunch of useless fighter jets? pay for them yourselves.ribby2Comment on If you could build a school system from scratch, what would be different? (commentary)tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/education/index.ssf//3940.205629472012-05-14T15:25:44Z2012-05-14T15:25:44ZI like you suggestion about the National Guard. No way would the warmongers in office send the Guard to Afghanistan if the Guard was made up of teenagers on a six month assignment. Especially if urinating on corpses isn't inribby2Comment on If you could build a school system from scratch, what would be different? (commentary)tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/education/index.ssf//3940.205628792012-05-14T15:21:43Z2012-05-14T15:21:43ZDo you see that making students repeat a grade is exactly the rigid, factory-style mentality that Britten is decrying? Why should students repeat a whole grade if only part of the material was not grasped? In fact, in high schoolribby2Comment on If you could build a school system from scratch, what would be different? (commentary)tag:www.mlive.com,2015:/education/index.ssf//3940.205626702012-05-14T15:08:06Z2012-05-14T15:08:06ZThere's no MEA in Detroit.ribby2Comment on Tim Skubick: Senate Republicans agree to poison pill in personal property tax reformtag:www.mlive.com,2015:/politics/index.ssf//3203.205521362012-05-13T12:46:54Z2012-05-13T12:46:54ZThe relevant location is the physical location of the purchaser, not the seller.ribby2